Jeremiah 9:1-7 (Revised Standard Version)
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1
O that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
2
O that I had in the desert a wayfarers' lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men.
3
They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD.
4
Let every one beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother; for every brother is a supplanter, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.
5
Every one deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.
6
Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, says the LORD.
7
Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do, because of my people?
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Revised Standard Version - Holy Bible)
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